Chapter 5 New Jutsus
OK chapter 5 . Sorry some things are a bit confusing. Funny. It makes sense in my head.....please don't comment on that.
The black lines like this are the Shukaku talking in Gaara's mind.
The black lines like this are the Shukaku talking in Gaara-mirai's mind. (if I decide to put him in)
It's funny Sakura was suppose to be one of the main characters but she's not really in it yet. There'll be more Sakura in this one hopefully. R&R.
Gaara-mirai regained consciousness a few hours after the leaf-nins caught up with him. Someone was sitting on the bed next to where he was lying. The room was very bright and a constant beeping noise came from beside the bed. He let out a small groan as he guessed where he was.
"Please tell me I'm not where I think I am," he said not opening his eyes.
"Ok we wont," came Kankurou-mirai's voice.
"But you are," Naruto-mirai's voice came from next to him. He was the one sitting on the bed.
Gaara-mirai opened his eyes and looked around. He hated hospitals. "Why am I here?"
"Don't you remember? The seal? The sand-nins?" Lee-mirai said from his chair. In fact everyone was there, even the past-nins. "Tsunade-sama said she's be back soon to check on you."
"Oh crap I gotta get out of here!" Gaara-mirai said sitting up. Temari-mirai pushed him down.
"Why?" Naruto-mirai asked, eating Gaara-mirai's hospital breakfast (it's not like Gaara-mirai was going to eat it).
"She'll know what I did and will be pissed." Another attempt to get up, another push down. "Where's my sash?" Temari-mirai sat down opposite Naruto and held her brother down.
"Here it is," Sakura said from her seat. In her lap, folded nicely was his sash. Ryuhi had given it to her to guard last night. She was going to get up to give it to him, but the sound of a herd of elephants storming down the hallway kept her in her seat. Everyone's eyes popped out of their head as the hospital room's door was ripped off its hinges. Tsunade stormed into the room up to Gaara-mirai, who yanked Naruto-mirai in front of him to shield him from the enraged Hokage. In his own panic, Naruto-mirai grabbed Neji-mirai and pulled him in front of the two of them.
"YOU IDIOT!!!! HOW MANY TIMES DID I TELL YOU NOT TO USE ANY OF THEM NO MATTER WHAT?!?! AND YOU TURN AROUND AND USE TWO!! DO YOU REALISE HOW MUCH DAMAGE YOU MAY HAVE CAUSED?!?" Gaara-, Naruto-, and Neji-mirai were about as deep in the bed as the mattress would allow. Neji-and Naruto-mirai looked terrified as the strong woman vented her anger with ten whole minutes of screaming which don't really need to be written down. You get it. She's pissed. When she finally stopped to catch her breath Gaara-mirai peeked out from behind Naruto-mirai and Neji-mirai. "Care to explain yourself?" she asked in a fake sweet voice.
"No, I think I'd like to live to see my seventeenth birthday," Gaara-mirai muttered. (A/N: I don't care how many sites say Gaara was 13 during the Chûnin exam. He told Shikamaru and Naruto that, and I quote: "for the past six years since I was six my father blah blah blah" he was 12 during the exam peoples!!)
"And I'd like to live in general," Neji-mirai said, not liking the fact that he was the one in front of Death and her prey. "Let go of me." Naruto-mirai let the Hyuuga go, but Gaara-mirai hadn't released his grip on the back of his shirt yet so he couldn't move.
"Gaara, I know you used Time Card," Tsunade said, much quieter and calmer then before. "Why did you use it? You know how dangerous it is, you've already made a mess of things, don't make it worse." She stood waiting, then turned to the others. "Please, wait outside." Everyone got up and walked out of the room. Naruto-mirai hesitated then also left.
The past-nins decided to explore the five-year advanced Konoha. Sakura walked up to the Konoha version of Mount Rushmore and climbed all the way to the top. She had only done this once alone and was pleased to find that the cave like crevice under a certain overhanging rock was still there. The sun was starting to rise when she finally got there. She was startled to find that the crevice wasn't empty as she expected it to be. One of the Gaara's was sitting in it. She decided that it was the older Gaara because he wasn't wearing his sash, since she still had it.
"Hi," she said, softly. 'Whoa he looks bummed.'
"Hi," his answer was barely audible.
"Can I sit here?" she asked. He just shrugged so she sat across from him. "What did Tsunade-sama say?" she asked when she grew too uncomfortable with the silence.
"Not to use the Cards anymore," he stated. "And she—" he stopped.
"What?" she asked.
Gaara-mirai lifted his shoulder and dropped it. "She took my head protector away," he mumbled not looking at her.
"Oh," Sakura said. She tried to picture where Gaara wore his head protector then remembered he wore it on his brown strap. She hadn't noticed it on the older Gaara, though. "Why'd she take it?"
"I wanted to be completely cut off from Suna, and I wanted to go on missions like the others, but Hokage can't give orders to a Sand-nin. Just like Kazekage can't give orders to a Leaf-nin." Gaara-mirai explained. "Tsunade let me take lessons in Konoha to become a graduated Ninja here too. Kazekage wasn't happy about it, but Tsunade made this special deal where I could become a Leaf-nin, but I would keep my Sand symbol as well so I would have to answer Kazekage if he had a mission for me."
"So you're considered a ninja from two villages?" Sakura asked.
"Yes, I have both Leaf and Sand on my head protector. But Tsunade took it away earlier," he said looking down at his hands. "I can't train here and I can't go on missions."
"I'm sorry," Sakura said, feeling bad for him.
"It's not your fault. I panicked last night, because I didn't have the sand's protection." Gaara-mirai leaned his head against the wall.
"Is that where you sealed Time Card? In your sash?" Sakura asked.
"You and Lee are here," Gaara-mirai said, ignoring the question, but Sakura knew her guess was right.
Sakura looked at him in confusion, then her future self jumped into the cave with Lee-mirai. "There you are, Gaara." Lee-mirai said.
"Everyone's looking for you," Sakura-mirai told him, then smiled at her younger self, who shyly returned the smile.
"I'm right here," he stated. Sakura-mirai glared at him like she wanted to hit him, but decided against it. Gaara-mirai got up and left the cave, without saying another word.
"Ho!!" Sakura-mirai sighed exasperated. "Try to do something nice for the guy and he throws it in your face."
"Tsunade-sama took his head protector away," Lee-mirai stated.
"How did you know?" Sakura asked.
"I didn't see it on him. I was only guessing," Lee-mirai told the younger version of his biggest crush.
"Oh," Sakura-mirai looked upset at this. "Poor Gaara. When he was training to get it..," she told her younger self, "I don't think I've ever seen anyone work so hard for something. Except, maybe Naruto. But Naruto works crazy hard at everything so that doesn't count..."
There was a moment's silence. "How long are we staying here?" Sakura asked them.
"Until Gaara recovers enough chakra so send you all back, which might be a while, cause you need a lot," Lee-mirai told her.
Tap. Tap
"Gaara?" No answer.
Knock. Knock.
"Gaara?" No answer.
BANG. BANG.
"Gaara, I know you're in there!" Temari-mirai shouted at her brother's closed door. Kankurou-mirai looked at her like she was nuts. Changed or not Gaara was still Gaara and right now he was upset and probably angry. You couldn't pay him enough to bang on his door like that. The door opened, but it was Ryuhi not Gaara-mirai. "Um...can we come in?" Ryuhi moved away from the door and leapt up on a chair, curled up and went to sleep. The sand siblings took that as a 'yes' and crept in.
"Temari, he's going to kill us," Kankurou muttered. He felt like he was stepping into some forbidden territory and Gaara would jump out at them any second. It didn't help either that there wasn't any light in the room.
"Kankurou, you're such a baby," Temari muttered back.
"Am not."
"Are too."
"Am not!"
"What's that?!"
"Where?! Where?!"
"Just kidding."
"....."
"What are you two doing in here?"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Temari-mirai jumped and grabbed Kankurou-mirai nearly choking him to death in her fright.
"Who's the baby?" Kankurou-mirai asked, turning with his sister still clinging to him to face their baby brother. "Looking for you," he told him.
"Why are you looking for me?" Gaara asked them.
Temari- and Kankurou-mirai realized this was their younger, younger brother. "Oh, I mean we're looking for the other you. Have you seen him?"
Glare. "No." he walked away, leaving them alone with a sleeping dragon.
"I can't stand this, can we leave?" Kankurou-mirai asked. Temari-mirai nodded and followed him out.
As they were going downstairs the doorbell rang. Kakashi got up to get it. One visible eye stared at another one visible eye. Both Kakashi's stuck their hand behind their head. "Well, this is strange..." they said in unison.
"Good morning, Kakashi," Temari-mirai said. "What brings you here?"
"Well, I was curious about this," Kakashi-mirai motioned to the several past-nins lounging in the living room. "And Tsunade-sama asked me to explain something to you." He told them the same thing Gaara-mirai told Sakura.
"Oh, dear," Temari-mirai murmured.
"That bitch!"
"Kankurou!" Temari-mirai yelled, thwacking him up the side of his head.
"Where's Gaara?" Kakashi-mirai asked, not wanting to stand around and watch the two fight.
"We were just looking for him," Temari-mirai told him.
Kakashi-mirai sighed and pulled out his favorite manga out of his pocket. "Well, we better find him soon."
"Will you help—?"
"Is that Make-Out Paradise volume....five?" Kakashi gaped at the book in his future self's hand.
"No. Six." Kakashi-mirai told him, showing him the cover.
"Su-su-su-su-six?" Kakashi stuttered. "Can-can-can I see the other ones?"
"Sure, they're over at my house," Kakashi-mirai led his younger self out of the house.
"So much for his help," Kankurou-mirai muttered. "Where would Gaara be?"
"I'm right here." Temari- and Kankurou-mirai turned and saw Gaara-mirai sitting, playing video games with Naruto-mirai. They were both looking at them with a worried expression.
"Were you there the whole time?" Temari-mirai asked.
"For the past fifteen minutes, yeah," Naruto-mirai answered. "We're going to the Ramen Stand for lunch later, ok?"
"Sure, sure fine whatever."
After several bowls of ramen, Gaara-mirai and Naruto-mirai walked through the dense forest, fully aware that their younger selves and several others from the past were following them. Naruto-mirai casually suggested that they trained a bit, but Gaara-mirai reminded him that he couldn't train.
"Aw, common! Obachan's not here to see us!" Naruto-mirai cried in protest. "Besides with you without your sand's protection I have a sporting chance of hitting you without using a whole lot of chakra."
Gaara-mirai's expression went from composed-upset to annoyed-and-not-quite-composed. "What the hell?! That's why you want to train with me?!"
"No...well, yes, but that's not the only reason." Naruto-mirai said waving his hands in front of him. "I just can't think of anything else to do right now."
"...." Gaara-mirai growled under his breath. He glanced at the blonde just in time to see and duck a blue ball of chakra. Gaara-mirai jumped away as Naruto-mirai pulled his hand away from the tree he had hit.
From the trees where they were watching, Naruto's eyes popped out of his head. "What was that?! Is that my new Jutsu?"
"What was it?" Kiba asked.
"A ball of chakra," Neji replied. Sasuke and Gaara remained silent.
Down below Gaara-mirai made a series of signs with his hands ending with his palms barely an inch apart and muttered "Inazuma tenohira no Jutsu." Naruto-mirai stood there staring like a total idiot as a bright light appeared between Gaara-mirai's hands. The sand-nin charged at Naruto-mirai, holding onto his right wrist and smacking him in the chest Hyuuga gentle palm style. Naruto-mirai lit up like a frickin' Christmas tree, then fell forward burnt and sizzling. Gaara-mirai dusted his hands off and sat down waiting for the Leaf-nin to wake up.
"I like that Jutsu better then mine," Naruto mused.
Naruto-mirai groaned and sat up. Seeing Gaara-mirai sitting across from him with his arms crossed looking smug, he stood up to yell, "What the hell was that?" but fell over again. "What was that?" he asked in a normal voice instead of yelling.
"Inazuma Tenohira no Jutsu. The Art of Lightning Palm," Gaara-mirai replied.
"That's your new lightning technique?" Naruto-mirai asked, painfully standing up.
"Yes," Gaara-mirai said, also standing up. "Do you still want to train?"
"Duh," Naruto-mirai said glaring, but in that 'I'm having fun' way. "Just as soon as I can feel my legs you're going down!"
Twenty minutes later, the two ninjas were both on the ground gasping for breath and the younger nin's in the trees were gaping at the Jutsus displayed.
"You guys came come down you know," Naruto-mirai said. "We wont bite." The five ninjas came down from their tree, still staring in awe at the powerful ninjas in front of them. "What'd'ya think?"
"That was incredible!!" Naruto and Kiba cried. Naruto added, "Can you teach me that?"
"You'll be learning them soon anyway," Gaara-mirai muttered. "Most of the techniques he was using he learned during or right after the Chûnin exam."
"Yeah, and Obachan might get pissed if we taught you anything," Naruto-mirai added. "Speaking of which, you don't think we did a lot of damage here do you?" the five past-nins weren't sure if he was talking to them or Gaara-mirai. "Think she'll notice?"
Gaara-mirai looked around. The clearing they had started fighting in had gotten a lot bigger and several big trees lay destroyed and scattered where they fell from their attacks. He shrugged.
The seven boys trudged back to the Sand house. The two older nins froze when they saw their favorite female Hokage standing at the door waiting for them, with an evil smile on her face. "Oh crap...."
This chapter took forever to write. thank god it's over. right now I'm in the process of writing Chapter 6 so it wont be long till it's up. R&R .